Anna Krüger Foundation

The Anna Krüger Foundation awards "an Anna Krüger Prize of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin to a researcher who has written an outstanding work in good and understandable scholarly language" (charter). With this award, the foundation seeks "to contribute to improving forms of expression in research and to reward the author for scholarly prose that is also understood by interested laymen".

The donor, Professor Anna Krüger (1904-1991), taught Didactics of German Literature at the Weilburg an der Lahn Pedagogical College and at Gießen University. She published on Jean Paul and on literature for children and young people. Ms. Krüger donated her fortune to the Anna Krüger Foundation and designated the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin her heir and the seat of the foundation, which was set up in 1992. The foundation's income provides the 20,000-Euro purse of the Anna Krüger Prize.

The foundation is headed by a Curatorium comprising the Rector, the Permanent Fellows of the Wissenschaftskolleg and, at present, Dr. Susanne Schüssler, head of publishing house Klaus Wagenbach, and Dr. Stephan Schlak, chief editor of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte.

In addition to the Prize, foundation funds are also used at irregular intervals to award an Anna Krüger Foundation Stipend to writers or researchers who are in difficult financial or personal situations.

The recipients of the Prize and of the Stipend are nominated by the Foundation Curatorium. It is not possible to apply on one's own.